Sentences with phrase «teachers and parents say»

Most teachers and parents say that developing caring children is their top priority and rank it as more important than children's achievements.

So far, there's some evidence that they are, although some teachers and parents say that even that evidence is suspect.

Not exact matches

It goes back to what your teachers and parents always said: Listen first, talk second.

The FDA said that such products are also more difficult for parents and teachers to recognize or detect, potentially adding to its appeal for the youth.

In a study published in The European Journal of Social Psychology, students who wrote out self - advice using «you» not only completed more problems but said they would be happier to work on more in the future compared with students who used «I.» The researchers speculated this is because second - person self - talk may trigger memories of receiving support and encouragement from parents and teachers in childhood.

He says, «Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves talk, or speak,» and he goes on to say, «The ability to lock in and listen is a skill that has served me well in life,» says Branson, «Although, it seems to be a dying art, I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur, or just about anyone who has a pulse.»

In reference to how Millennials were raised by their boomer parents, mentors and teachers, he says: «We would have been much better off hearing a little less about how special we were or how super diversity is, and a little more about how much it costs to own a house and how interests rates work.»

They're like teachers and parents, in the sense that what they say and do (or fail to say and do) is going to echo in their congregations forever.

I have every respect to those angels and consider bringing such subject up as disrespect for what those do to our world with their kindness... Those nuns and popes were once my teachers in the kindergarden in Aden Colony of Southern Arabia although I was considered as Muslim from Muslim parents... so you can say I hold for them great respect although we are from different religions beliefs...!

In a letter to parents seen by NBC 6, the school said: «Today, a difficult and necessary decision has been made regarding Ms Jocelyn Morffi, our first - grade teacher.

This is not to say that the droves of young people uncomfortable with the rigidity, dogmatism, and strange beliefs of their parents» religions are all awakening like the greatest teachers of antiquity, just that the guardians of the dogma back then sounded just like Mr. Miller today.

But there are teachers who aren't afraid to say «I love you» to their students and friends who say «good job» when you mess up on your part and parents who love the best they can and principals who sing solos and somewhere there is a new crop of parents with bewildered babies in the public pool, bouncing up and down in the water, and in that moment at least every one is singing.

SAT 7 said schools that have not been destroyed are overcrowded, and the fear of violence has caused parents to keep their children at home and teachers to abandon their posts

«Parents and teachers told me, «You've got to get rid of the football team, they're ruling the campus, ruining the campus,»» Betters says.

«Ultimately, it will take students, teachers, parents and administrators working together to create indelible change,» Daniels said.

Or should we — parents, teachers, bystanders, infotainment talk - show hosts — stand up and say it's not acceptable to make fun of people who are different?

They don't normally find out, however, when a teacher goes up to the front of their classroom and just says out of the blue that Santa isn't real and that their parents are lying to them, because that would be pretty crazy behavior from a teacher.

A recent study showed that more than 75 percent of parents said they wished teachers would tell them more about the dangers of the «summer slide» and provide tips on how to keep their kids» minds engaged.

Some adults (not only parents but teachers, coaches, advisors, and more) react by taking a top - down approach, laying down their word as law: «Do it because I said so.»

This parent abdicates and defers to others in his child's life - «If your teacher says so...» «If that's what grandma wants...» - creating an inconsistent patchwork of limits and love.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

«A year - end meeting with your child care provider is just as important as a parent - teacher conference,» says Michelle Borba, Ed.D parenting expert for the TODAY Show and author of The Big Book of Parenting Sparenting expert for the TODAY Show and author of The Big Book of Parenting SParenting Solutions.

Jan Kimosh, a local artist and retired art teacher says, «I think parents are more afraid of the art museum than kids are.»

«Stigma, lack of awareness and fear around mental health care prevent many parents and teachers from getting kids the support they need,» said physician and Child Mind Institute president Harold Koplewicz.

It's not uncommon to hold parent - teacher conferences on Sundays, she says, because many parents whose children attend John Jay juggle two or more jobs, working 16 - hour days six days a week at factories, restaurants and cleaning services.

I keep saying if we (USDA, Food Service, Parents, Teachers, Kids) listen to each other and work together, this can be done.

By: Joe Newman In my last blog I said that our culture had swung its emphasis from teaching children that respecting others (parents, teachers, community members, etc.) to teaching them that respecting themselves was most important, and that either extreme was unhealthy for children.

There's more I can say, this is a touchy topic for me as a teacher and parent, but I'll stop!

The Zion teenager comes from a comfortable middle - class home; she says her parents, an engineer and a teacher, are caring and supportive; and her life has been absent any of the trauma or serious misfortune that sometimes shapes a reformer.

The new hotdog, called ProPlus and manufactured by Protein Technologies International, a division of Ralston Purina Co., was selected by the Chicago school lunch council, a comittee comprising teachers, managers, principals, parents and students, Phillips says.

The parent - teacher organization at the school has been raising money to pay for a new wooden floor in the gym and has already raised $ 100,000, said Kim Anderson, co-president of the PTO.

JS: How do you respond to people who say these kinds of interventions are not enough to combat systemic problems of poverty and that we shouldn't be putting our focus on parents or teachers?

The parents and teachers blame the Chicago Park District, which, they say, is supposed to maintain the facility.

So what you are saying is I don't believe in teaching my children the word «no», nor do I believe in teaching them to listen and mind me, there teachers or other people of authority i.e. child care providers, grandparents, the law, there friend's parents....

If both parents agree that homework has to be done for the entire week before the kid's weekend starts, and if the teacher says that the child's assignments aren't done from Tuesday, on Friday night the child can't start watching TV or play video games or go out until that homework's done.

They said that teachers figure out the kids quickly anyway, and don't need or want the parents to bring their own prejudgments into it.

«Research firmly supports what every parent and teacher knows from experience: students who eat well and exercise do better academically,» said Liza Holland, secretary of the Kentucky PTA and mother of two teenagers.

As kids get older, says Dr. Ostrov, it's often so covert that parents and teachers may not be able to see it, especially if the bullying is relational (gossiping about someone, excluding someone, and so on).

A relatively small class size, say no more than ten parent - and - child pairs, is important so you can hear the teacher and have plenty of room in the pool.

«As teachers and parents, we need to be on the lookout,» says Jamie Ostrov, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at the University at Buffalo.

The idea is to provide parents «with the tools and techniques to become the first teachers of their children,» said Common Council member Barbara Smith, an alliance member who helped spearhead the baby program.

In an interview, Tough, a former editor of The New York Times Magazine, said much of the new research points to a different way of thinking about a child's environment and how parents, caregivers and teachers can change it.

Tough, who is on a national book tour, said he thinks there's a lot of excitement among teachers and parents around such ideas, and that for many teachers, developing these «noncognitive skills,» as Heckman calls them, are a natural part of their work with students.

During Bein's visit on Nov. 12 and Delli's visit on Nov. 13, the candidates toured Arlington Heights schools and met with selected groups such as representatives from the parent teachers association, administrators, teachers and students, Friedman said.

«We are deeply troubled and concerned not only about the impact on children and their parents but also on the nurses and teachers being turned into border guards,» CEO Zrinka Bralo said.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Parents now no longer have the certainty that when they send their children to school they will be taught by a qualified teacher and children have lost that critical entitlement.

«To say school dinners hasn't worked is not just inaccurate but is also an insult to the hard work of hundreds of thousands of dinner ladies, teachers, headteachers and parent helpers who strive to feed schoolkids a nutritious, hot meal for 190 days of the year,» Mr Oliver, known as the Naked Chef, said.

Personally, it is heart - warming when a parent runs up to you and says «thank you» for putting money in herpurse, because she did not have to pay Gh cents 2,000.00 for her two children in SHS; or whenan excited teacher traineeshows you the text message notification of her allowance received.

She spoke with parents, students, teachers, and school and district leaders to hear what they had to say about the State's learning standards, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and principal evaluations.

«The trend is internal to the Jewish community... which is to say older, middle - aged and more secular Jewish voters like my parents — two retired teachers and civil servants in Brooklyn — just don't have the numbers anymore.